After just a couple of seasons of strong play, the Cincinnati Bengals’ Joe Burrow has become one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL.
He isn’t quite as prolific or flashy as Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs, and he isn’t exactly the rushing threat the Buffalo Bills’ Josh Allen is, but he is cool, steady, and productive.
Burrow will be entering his fourth season in September, and that means that he is in line for his first big contract as an NFL player, one that will make him a very wealthy man.
Joe Burrow’s projected contract extension, per @PFF_Brad pic.twitter.com/Tt56YK8zMi
— PFF (@PFF) April 6, 2023
With a projected $214 million over four years in his near future, his family will be set and he can create generational wealth for himself.
It must be an exciting prospect for a man who was born in Ames, Iowa, a small town that has much fewer than 100,000 people.
Burrow’s rookie season was quiet, but he rose to prominence in 2021, throwing for 4,611 yards on a league-high 70.4 percent completion rate while leading Cincinnati to the Super Bowl, where they narrowly lost to the Los Angeles Rams.
Last season, his team lost a nail-biter in the AFC Championship Game to Mahomes’ Chiefs.
In Ja’Marr Chase, Tee Higgins, and Tyler Boyd, Burrow has an impressive trio of wide receivers to depend on, and he will have an outstanding bodyguard of sorts next season in the form of four-time Pro Bowl left tackle Orlando Brown Jr. ., who the Bengals signed away from the Chiefs a few weeks ago.
Both the present and the future look bright for Burrow and the Bengals, and it could hold the franchise’s first ever Vince Lombardi Trophy.
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